Hello friends,
Few days back i have posted a mail regarding changing
of mouse cursor in X. Till now i have got any reply but i
am able to locate a HOW-TO for this, but the problem
remains the same, still it is not working..
Can any one help me..whats actually going wrong with me....
**I wonder why X people neglected this option..at all **
url for the how to :
http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/mini/X-Big-Cursor-3.html
Here i am again reproducing the steps mentioned there...
Follow the steps detailed below. If you don't want to get
and compile the bdfresize package yourself, you can skip
to step 3 and download a magnified font instead of
creating it.
1. get cursor.bdf, the source of the cursor font, from some
X distribution, e. g. from
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/R6.3/xc/fonts/bdf/misc/cursor.bdf (if
you don't find it there try an archie search or get it
from my copy).
2. get, compile and install the bdfresize package
from
ftp://ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp/X11/contrib/Local/bdfresize-1.4.tar.Z
(or from my copy):
zcat bdfresize-1.4.tar.Z | tar xf -
cd bdfresize-1.4
xmkmf
make
On Linux you probably have to use:
make CCOPTIONS='-include /usr/include/bsd/bsd.h' clean all
3. create a directory and install a magnified cursor font
in it (magnification factor 2 in this example):
mkdir $HOME/fonts
bdfresize -f 2 cursor.bdf | bdftopcf
>$HOME/fonts/cursor2.pcf
mkfontdir $HOME/fonts
I have prepared some cursor fonts with the following
magnification factors: 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and
16. You can download one of them an copy it to
$HOME/fonts if you don't want to use bdfresize.
4. modify your .xinitrc or .xsession file: before any
X client (that uses cursors) is started the following
commands must be executed:
xset +fp $HOME/fonts
xsetroot -cursor_name X_cursor
5. leave your X session and restart.
That's it?now all mouse cursors should have doubled in size.
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Moyukh
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